A Deep Blue Sea of Familiar Faces
Daphne Blue Underworld releases the record at Deep Cuts on Thursday, 1 May 2025.
Tripsitter, See You At Rogers, and Grace Givertz sandwich the fourstack bill.
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Thursday night at Deep Cuts. Either a “school night” or the new Friday, depending on how you look at it. The audience for Daphne Blue Underground’s record release show was heavily-stocked with local music faces.
Spotted: band members from TIFFY, oldsoul, Good June, Astral Bitch, Crushdepth, and more. When the guitarist from See You At Rogers joked that most of the room was probably hosting a Somerville Porchfest gig, he wasn’t really kidding.
Speaking of which, WOW Somerville! And look at the map of all the participating acts.
Grace Givertz
Grace Givertz
The solo guitarist/banjoist Grace Givertz opened with a set of indie rock-meets-alt country, pulling from her stellar, twang-drenched LP Year of the Horse.
The set also included an unrecorded song about a ne’er do well ex-boyfriend(s?), who sounds like a holier-than-thou lefty intellectual type that could talk your ear off all night about the “universal rights of man” but lacks the requisite empathy to be humane to the human beings right in front of him. As far as I could tell.
Don’t hold me to it, but I think I heard this song performed at the Somerville Solstice in 2022, which means this guy(s) has been getting dropkicked to music for about a half decade at least.
Daphne Blue Underworld
Daphne Blue Underworld
Daphne Blue Underground’s new LP Memory Palace dropped April 25. The full-length album trades between electro pop and a more ambient approach. The musician behind the moniker (nom de guerre: Loren Ipsum – nice) performed solo, relying on an electric guitar and some type of sampler/synth/drum machine to fill out the rest of the sound. The strummy guitar-driven numbers plant their flag in that classic indie rock territory, and that’s where most of her set on Thursday night roamed.
See You At Rogers
See You At Rogers
The five-piece See You At Rogers crafted a heavy pop sound, with a layer of keys lending it a vintage air. Like Viv Savage was sitting in on an early Black Sabbath instrumental. The heavy chug of distorted guitars and bass, shot through with the smash of drums and the crash of cymbals, generously syrup’d with hard rocking solos.
Tripsitter
Tripsitter
Tripsitter. Or Trip Sitter? I’ve committed to the “trip sitter” tag for Hump Day News posts, and there’s no going back, but I will happily adjust to whatever the accepted spelling is in my actual writeups.
The alt rock four-piece performed tracks off its latest (debut?) LP Then Again, It Never Was. The album reflects a lot of the influences of the band member’s other projects, like Dutch Tulips, Dwelley, and Tatooine Punk Scene. Pop-forward tunes with some heavier artrock bits tossed into the mix.
I must have been hearing things, because I could swear there were vocal harmonies floating through the air, even when I saw only one person leaning into the microphone.
It’s the magic of music, baybee!
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Daphne Blue Underworld releases the record at Deep Cuts.